March 2010
15 posts
Support Expectations
For the past (about 10 now!) years my goal has been to answer each and every Hog Bay Software related forum post and email. I haven’t always been successful at this, but that was the goal, and I felt bad when I didn’t reach it.
For the past few months I’ve had about 100 unread email in my Inbox. Each day I spend time answering some of the most important, but the next day they...
TaskPaper for iPhone 1.1 now availible →
Hog Bay Software pizza post
This post is inspired by Gus Mueller’s pizza post. I’ve liked making pizza for a long time, and last summer I got a bit more serious after hearing about cooking pizza on your oven’s cleaning cycle. In the end I never tried the cleaning cycle technique, instead I channeled my new excitement into getting what I really wanted… a wood fired oven. But most of my recipe/process comes...
TaskPaper for Mac 2.2.2
This is a minor release that fixes one more integration issue with SimpleText for Mac. Now when you create a new document in the SimpleText folder, you will no longer be warned “This document has been modified” on your second save.
Geeky, but really nice TaskPaper printing solution →
SimpleText.ws sharing documents #2
Last week I posted a geeky way for sharing documents on SimpleText.ws. Since then I’ve had a few requests from people who want to hack the open source SimpleText.ws server code to make this process easier. So here are some thoughts on how to do it:
First, as shown in the last post, the server code already supports document sharing. I don’t think any major modifications need to be...
WriteRoom 2.5 Preview release #2
Here’s a new WriteRoom 2.5 preview release. This release should both remember, and scroll to, the last cursor position when switching between fullscreen and non fullscreen modes. It should also add the encoding extended attribute when saving plain text files. This should help other apps read the right encoding. I recommend that you start always using UTF8 as your default plain text file...
TaskPaper for Mac 2.2.1
Fixed New projects are not indented if current selection is also a project when “New Project” command is performed.
Fixed Better recognizing and merging of external changes made to open document files. Fixes “This document has been modified error”.
Fixed After saving document edit status is now set immediately after you start new typing, instead of waiting until you...
TaskPaper for Mac 2.2.1 Preview
I’ve just posted a preview release of 2.2.1. The big issue that I’m trying to resolve is the warning message that some people often see when saving documents in the SimpleText for Mac local folder.
If TaskPaper’s been telling you “This document’s file has been changed by another application since you opened or saved it” when you try to save, please download...
SimpleText.ws sharing documents
Document sharing between two or more accounts is built into the SimpleText.ws website, but I haven’t yet built a user inteface for it. At the moment I have other priorities, and so I’m not likely to build the UI soon.
But if you really want this feature now you can do it from the command line, though I would only recommend trying this if you are comfortable on the command line and a...
TaskPaper for Mac 2.2
Changed File format changed to use indentation only to determine item parent child structure. You can run this applescript on old documents to update them to the new format.
Added Shift Up and Shift Down commands, for reordering the current line.
Added Select block command, selects current entry and all descendants.
Added Open link command, opens the current link that the text cursor is over.
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WriteRoom 2.5 Preview release
It’s long past time for WriteRoom 2.5 to be released. I’ve just been doing some cleanup, and am now ready to post this preview release. Please try it out, and let me know about any show stopping bugs that you run into. If no huge problems show up then I’ll make it the official release.
SimpleText for Mac 1.0.1
When you add a file to the local SimpleText folder files ending with “.taskpaper” will now get the document tag “TaskPaper”, all other files will get tagged “WriteRoom”. These tags are not visible in the Finder, but can be used to filter out different documents sets on TaskPaper for iPhone. Eventually document filtering will also be in WriteRoom for iPhone.